Pest Control Turnham Green

Pest Control in Turnham Green

Turnham Green is the area around the green itself and the streets connecting Chiswick High Road to the residential avenues that run towards Acton. The green is a triangular open space that gives the neighbourhood its identity and Chiswick High Road runs alongside with its shops, restaurants and cafes. The food businesses on the high road are a direct factor in the rat activity we deal with in this area. The service areas and bins behind the restaurants attract rats, which then move into the residential streets using drain connections and the back lanes that run between the gardens. The Victorian and Edwardian streets south of the high road, around Sutton Court Road and Barrowgate Road, are where we attend the most rat calls from householders.

The housing around Turnham Green is among the most sought-after in west London and it is almost entirely Victorian and Edwardian in character. The terraces and semis have all the features that keep mice coming back: suspended timber floors, shared party walls, airbricks and sash windows with imperfect seals. The houses are well maintained on the outside, but the basic construction has not changed and mice will find any gap that has opened up over the past hundred years. Flat conversions in the larger houses add complexity, creating internal routes that mice use to move between ground floor and upper level units.

The mature trees along the avenues and around the green support grey squirrels, which access the loft spaces of the larger houses where branches overhang the roofline. Wasp nests are a reliable summer problem in the decorative rooflines and behind the fascia boards of the Edwardian properties. Turnham Green is a polished and prosperous part of Chiswick and the pest work we do here is about protecting properties that their owners have invested heavily in, using the kind of thorough, careful approach that these well-loved homes deserve.